What is a prescriptive moral? On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where does that leave the prescriptive moral which I find is really under > discussion here? > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Chuck Bowling < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The term “morality” can be used either >> >> 1. descriptively to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by a >> society or, >> 1. some other group, such as a religion, or >> 2. accepted by an individual for her own behavior or >> 2. normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified >> conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons. >> >> The above definition of morality was taken from the Standford Encyclopedia >> of Philosophy. >> >> It seems to me that while the interpretation of the individual may be >> subjective, the overall goal of a code of conduct is to objectify behavioral >> expectations within the group or society. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:14 AM, [email protected] < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> In short then a flawed human is flawed only on measures of subjective >>> morality. I contend that there exists no such thing as objective >>> morality. >>> >>> >> >
